Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.