In general, our generals were outgeneralled.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

A representative assembly, although extremely well qualified, and absolutely necessary, as a branch of the legislative, is unfit to exercise the executive power, for want of two essential properties, secrecy and dispatch.

When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.