It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?