The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.