Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

Now is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honor. The least fracture now, will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound would enlarge with the tree, and posterity read in it full grown characters.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.