But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes? Do we not see a fair creation prep… - Thomas Paine

Whether we sleep or wake, the vast machinery of the universe still goes on.

Schimbarea progresiva neintrerupta la care este supus intelesul cuvintelor, lipsa unui limbaj universal, care face ca traducerea sa fie necesara, erorile carora traducrile le sunt supuse, greselile copistilor si tipografilor, alaturi de posibilitatea denaturarii voite sunt in ele insele dovezi ca limbajul omenesc, fie ca este vorbit sau tiparit, nu poate fi vehiculul Cuvantului lui Dumnezeu. [...] Cuvantul lui Dumnezeu este creatia, si prin cuvantul acesta, pe care niciun om nu il poate fabrica sau denatura – Dumnezeu ii vorbeste in mod universal omului.

Hereditary succession has no claim. For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others for ever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his contemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.