A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. ... There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.

But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

No one is without their difficulties, whether in High, or low Life, & every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.