There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

What i value more than all things, good humor.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.