How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.