I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

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

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

Ideology is the science of idiots.