Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

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.