"To believe in God, is to believe that there is a God; that is to say, to assent to this proposition, that God is. Not that I understand what God is, but that I believe that he is; and therefore, that …"

"No man can have a right to anything, unless he has a power to defend it."

"Ignorance of causes, makes men apt to attribute every event to some immediate invisible agent."

"For there is no such Finis Ultimus, (utmost aim,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest good,) as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live, whose desires are at an en…"

"The source of all felicity and unhappiness, is the love of ourselves."