It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.