it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?

[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five times as much as another, without any reason that ever I heard tell.

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.