To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

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

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

To live is not breathing it is action.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live; and, as at the instant of birth we partake of the rights of citizenship, that instant ought to be the beginning of the exercise of our duty.