In such a performance you may lay the foundation of national happiness only in religion, not by leaving it doubtful "whether morals can exist without it," but by asserting that without religion morals are the effects of causes as purely physical as pleasant breezes and fruitful seasons.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.