Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.