Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.