God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs.

Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.

Darkness is strong, and so is Sin, But surely God endures forever!

Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

There is something magnificent in having a country to love.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.