I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.