To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.