A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

Prophesying is lying professionally.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.