In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.