The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.