"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all the…"

"It is as natural to die as to be born."

"The honest and straightforward course is, in the long run, the most profitable."

"For as the eye of the mind, through the too great subtilty of the object, may be dulled and not able to perceive it, so through the too great subtilty of the medium it may be deceived and not able to …"

"To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action."