The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.