Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an ever-existing original, which every man can read. It cannot be forged; it cannot be counterfeited; it cannot be lost; it cannot be altered; it cannot be suppressed. It does not depend upon the will of man whether it shall be published or not; it publishes itself from one end of the earth to the other. It preaches to all nations and to all worlds; and this Word of God reveals to man all that is necessary for man to know of God.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.