The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.