The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty