Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.