Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.