On his return from Europe, America disfranchised him, ostracised him and repudiated him, refusing, among other indignities, to let him ride in public coaches.
So be it.

He is not the first great man who has found the world thankless.

Oddly enough, it troubled him little in comparison with the satisfaction he felt in seeing his exalted projects meet with success.
So that good things were effectually accomplished, he cared not a whit who got the credit.
In reference to the charges against him of being "an infidel," or guilty of "infidelity," he himself, with that straightforward and happy confidence which made some men call him a braggart, wrote: "They have not yet accused Providence of Infidelity.

Yet, according to their outrageous piety, she (Providence) must be as bad as Thomas Paine; she has protected him in all his dangers, patronised him in all his undertakings, encouraged him in all his ways...." It is true, as Mr.van der Weyde points out in an article in _The Truth Seeker_ (N.Y.), that a most extraordinary and beneficent luck,--or was it rather a guardian angel ?--stood guard over Paine.

His narrow escapes from death would make a small book in themselves.