The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

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

Pity enlarges the heart.

Can we be unsafe where God has placed us, and where He watches over us as a parent a child that he loves?

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

To will everything that God wills, and to will it always, in all circumstances and without reservations: that is the kingdom of God which is entirely within.