Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.