The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

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

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.