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.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.