When truth is evident, it is impossible for parties and factions to rise. There never has been a dispute as to whether there is daylight at noon.

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter.

Virtuous men alone possess friends.