An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue.

Many are called impious, not for having a worse, but a different religion from their neighbors; and many atheistical, not for the denying of God, but for thinking somewhat peculiarly concerning him.

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Of the thousands who have paid homage to virtue, barely one has thought to inspect the pedestal on which it stands.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.

... a nation to be strong, must be united; to be united, must be equal in condition; to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling; to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.