I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

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

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

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

Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.

There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.