[M]y religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.]

Blest is that nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes nothing for history to say.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

Nothing is more miserable than those people who never failed to attack their own salvation. When there was need to observe the Law, they trampled it under foot…

'Christians have made arguments on both sides of this question. I certainly believe that God is displeased with America for its pride and arrogance, for killin…

I am neither a saint nor a theologian. To me, good works are more important than theology. We all know that religion has been historically, and still is today,…