Either everything is illusion, nature as well as revelation, or experience alone can explain faith.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. 

I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.