The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.