The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

As I conceive this doctrine to be a gross misrepresentation of the character and moral government of God, and to affect many other articles in the scheme of Christianity, greatly disfiguring and depraving it; I shall show, ... that it has no countenance whatever in reason, or the Scriptures; and, therefore, that the whole doctrine of atonement, with every modification of it, has been a departure from the primitive and genuine doctrine of Christianity.

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.