There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.