The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.