We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

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

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.