Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

I have never been a communicant.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.