"Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and 'tis a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure."

"The great end of all speculation is to make our natural sentiments of approbation and blame coincide with those of the wise and judicious."

"Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular."

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them."

"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…"