Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

Bind them down by the chains of the Constitution where they can do no mischief.