The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?