All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.
History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost
Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.
Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.