Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.