The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.