Samuel Horsley

“In these days of rebuke and blasphemy, the salt of the earth, if it hath not quite lost its savour, is become lamentably weak and vapid.”

“When I speak of the sectarian, I mean the man who is so far gone in a persuasion of the truth of a system, as to be totally regardless of any evidence that may be produced to prove it false.”

“The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.”

“It is a principle never to be forgotten, that the most gifted intellects are sometimes the most deceived.”

“The unassisted powers of the human mind are insufficient for the discovery of truth.”

“The prescience of God is absolute and complete.”

“Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discovery, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.”