"It is the faculty of the human mind to think without control."

"The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun."

"The present state of things is the effect of a long series of revolutions in the mind, rather than a sudden change in the affairs of the world."

"The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act."

"Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course. But we have good reason to believe that milli…"