He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.