Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

The fable of Christ and his twelve apostles is a parody of the sun and the twelve signs of the Zodiac, copied from the ancient religions of the Eastern world. Every thing told of Christ has reference to the sun. His reported resurrection is at sunrise, and that on the first day of the week; that is, on the day anciently dedicated to the sun, and from thence called Sunday.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

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

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument