Error is always more busy than truth.

Hatred is self-punishment.

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

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

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.