The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.