Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Under what law each thing was created, and how necessary it is for it to continue under this, and how it cannot annul the strong rules that govern its lifetime.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.

All things obey fixed laws.