Christianity has therefore retained a strong hold on the public mind in America... In the United States... Christianity itself is a fact so irresistibly established, that no one undertakes either to attack or to defend it.

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

Though it is very important for man as an individual that his religion should be true, that is not the case for society. Society has nothing to fear or hope from another life; what is most important for it is not that all citizens profess the true religion but that they should profess religion.

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.