Kill the king but spare the man.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

The only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.