1. “The only things we perceive are our perceptions.”
2. “We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.”
3. “That thing about hell and external punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.”
4. “Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.”
5. “The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.”
6. “Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it, but the free-thinker alone is truly free.”
7. “It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.”
8. “A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.”
9. “Few men think; yet all have opinions.”
10. “A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.”
11. “To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God’s creatures and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.”
12. “A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe and glow into remotest centuries.”
13. “Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.”
14. “God is a being transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.”
15. “The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into round holes and the round into the square.”
