"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…"

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, means a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will."

"A certain proof that men ever did, and ever will derive their religion from other sources than this species of reasoning."

"'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of a…"

"The less men think, the more they talk."