Where Are Your Combing Seas, Your Blue

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.

Systems Are To Be Appreciated By Their General Effects, And Not By Particular Exceptions.

It Is Seldom Men Think Of Death In The Pride Of Their Health And Strength.

Hope Is The Most Treacherous Of All Human Fancies.

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery.