If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.