Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

It is better to die than to tell a lie

God has not chosen to save us without crosses; as He has not seen fit to create men at once in the full vigor of manhood, but has suffered them to grow up by degrees amid all the perils and weaknesses of youth.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The blood of a nation ought never to be shed except for its own preservation in the utmost extremity.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

The greatest defect of common education is, that we are in the habit of putting pleasure all on one side, and weariness on the other; all weariness in study, all pleasure in idleness.