I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?

Not for ourselves alone, but for all humanity... Let us hasten to find the path that leads to liberty, safety, and peace for everyone.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.