While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regarding their religious views was, "They will answer to God, at their own peril, in the great day approaching [that is, the day of divine judgment]."

Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'

All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.