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

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

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.

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

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.