The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of religion, of special revelation from God; but it is also a book which teaches man his own individual responsibility, his own dignity, and his equality with his fellow - man.

If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without mitigation or end.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.