In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

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

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.