Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

The care of our national commerce redounds more to the riches and prosperity of the public than any other act of government.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.