Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

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.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.