Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

Health is worth more than learning.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.