"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish."

"The greater the object, the less it can be conceived by the imagination."

"Thus the Jews in Europe, and the Armenians in the east, have a peculiar character; and the former are as much noted for fraud, as the latter for probity."

"The ingenuity, industry, and activity of the ancient GREEKS have nothing in common with the stupidity and indolence of the present inhabitants of those regions."

"The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is b…"