Beneficence is a duty.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Reason can never prove the existence of God.
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.