There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.

To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measures of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tableswithout breaking and mutually destroying them both.

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.