"Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and 'tis a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure."

"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."

"The general opinion of mankind is, that there is a great difference between a man and a stone."

"All doctrines, however, are not to be admitted on the same footing. Each must be tried by its own proper evidence; and as this evidence is more or less convincing, we must assent to it more or less st…"

"There is nothing in the mind of man that is not first in the senses, or in the operations of the mind itself."