The Almighty implanted in us these inextinguishable feelings for good and wise purposes. They are the guardians of His image in our heart. They distinguish us from the herd of common animals.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.