I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

What can laws do without morals?

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

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.

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

Love well, whip well.