That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.