To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

I would fain ask one of these bigotted Infidels, supposing all the great Points of Atheism... were laid together and formed into a kind of Creed, according to the Opinions of the most celebrated Atheists; I say, supposing such a Creed as this were formed, and imposed upon any one People in the World, whether it would not require an infinitely greater Measure of Faith, than any Set of Articles which they so violently oppose.