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

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.