The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be.

It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.