Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.