Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

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

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.