Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself. She seldom has received much aid from the power of great men to whom she is rarely known and seldom welcome. She has no need of force to procure entrance into the minds of men.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.