An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.