The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

The science of legislation is like that of medicine in one respect: that it is far more easy to point out what will do harm than what will do good.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.