We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Don't set out to teach theism from your natural history... You spoil both.

Power is in nature the essential measure of right.