They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.