To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.