The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

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

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

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

There are a set of men who go about making purchases upon credit, and buying estates they have not wherewithal to pay for; and having done this, their next step is to fill the newspapers with paragraphs of the scarcity of money and the necessity of a paper emission, then to have a legal tender under the pretense of supporting its credit, and when out, to depreciate it as fast as they can, get a deal of it for a little price, and cheat their creditors; and this is the concise history of paper money schemes.

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.