There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.