It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

What were the glories of the sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.