We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

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.

A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.