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

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

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