Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.