William Paley

“To see the absurdity of the notions of the Epicureans, in supposing the world to be made by a fortuitous concourse of atoms... you need only to try to perform the meanest piece of work by the same principle.”

“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance—that principle is contempt prior to investigation.”

“The final view of all rational politics is to produce the greatest quantity of happiness in a given tract of country.”

“True fortitude is seen in great exploits that justice warrants and that wisdom guides.”

“Whatever is expedient, is right.”

“Happiness is the supreme object of our desires.”

“The marks of design are too strong to be gotten over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person is GOD.”

“The watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer.”

“It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence.”

“Contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtilty, and curiosity of the mechanism.”

“What people are frightened of isn't death, but dying.”

“The pleasures of the animal creation are shades and colours in the magnificent panorama of nature.”

“Let your pleasures be cheap, and your habits simple.”