That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. – Thomas Paine
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice. – Thomas Paine
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. – Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. – Thomas Paine
I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. – Isaac Newton (1642–1727), spoken the evening before his death