There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.