It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.