If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
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 prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.