State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever: that, considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].