Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.

When passion rules, she never rules wisely.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?