There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Compassion, the fairest associate of the heart.