Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Music...This is the favorite passion of my soul.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.