Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land. The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

The same facts impress us differently.