There is nothing god cannot do.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.

Should this my firm persuasion of the soul's immortality prove to be a mere delusion, it is at least a pleasing delusion, and I will cherish it to my last breath.

Reason should direct, and appetite obey.

All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal.... If you make a promise, the thing is still uncertain, depends on a future day, and concerns but few people; but if you refuse you alienate people to a certainty and at once, and many people too.