"For the source of all superstition is the fear of things invisible."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the fifteenth chapter, are immutable and eternal; but the force and efficacy of these laws depend upon the security which men have of being able …"

"Power and wealth, and honour, are but means to obtain power and wealth and honour."

"And therefore, as long as a man is in the condition of mere nature, (which is a condition of war,) as long as he has not bound himself by covenant to the contrary, every man has a right to every thing…"

"To believe in God is to believe in a being of infinite power, infinite wisdom, and infinite goodness."