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

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought to be established, and that mankind are at the expense of supporting it. The defects of every government and constitution both as to principle and form, must, on a parity of reasoning, be as open to discussion as the defects of a law, and it is a duty which every man owes to society to point them out.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.