I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.