It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying