A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.