"I never saw, hear, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country."

"Books, the children of the brain."

"The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a torrent of words; for whoever is master of an art, and hath a proper fund of materials, and a suitable …"

"When beasts could speak (the learned say They still can do so every day), It seems, they had religion then, As much as now we find in men."

"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."