In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.