Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

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

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.