God made me and broke the mold.
When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.
Abstract truth is the eye of reason.
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.