"What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call thought!"

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"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…"

"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind is of little use to us, if it do not enable us to correct our errors, and regulate our passions."