It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

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?

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

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.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.