No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.