The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.