Swift calls discretion low prudence; it is high prudence, and one of the most important elements entering into either social or political life.

Morality is but the vestibule of religion.

It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

Can you conceive of anything that so represents the glory, and truth, and marvelousness of God's nature as the idea of peace?

No man knows the genuineness of his convictions until he has sacrificed something for them.