The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

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.

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.