Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.
Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.
A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.