Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

Victory and defeat are each of the same price.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

A little rebellion is a good thing.