Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

We have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest truest constitution on the face of the earth. We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy.

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

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

Government is best which governs least