“ Virtue is succeeded by vice in the extreme, and all parade and pomp attached to religion is sound without substance—solemn mockery before the Lord, and an offering of vanity which never raises a soul to heaven. ”

“ MISSIONARIES.—It is a lamentable truth, that, notwithstanding the preeminent advantages the Americans enjoy, notwithstanding the great diffusion of education among them, there is a degree of religious fanaticism existing in the United States, that, if permitted to come to maturity, will sweep away, in one common ruin, liberty, happiness, and the rights of man. ”

“ It is in vain to buy eternal life with money; it is in vain to please God, if we neglect the poor; it is vain to serve the Lord with fashions, and it is in vain to expect corrupt trees to bring forth good fruit. ”