The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

True repentance always involves reform.