the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

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

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

It was in this year, 1828, that the standard of "the Christian Party in Politics" was openly unfurled... This was an evident attempt, through the influence of the clergy over the female mind - until this hour lamentably neglected in the United States - to effect a union of Church and State.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

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