The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

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