But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

The human understanding is a revelation from its maker, which can never be disputed or doubted. There can be no scepticism, Pyrrhonism, or incredulity or infidelity here. No prophecies, no miracles are necessary to prove this celestical communication. This revelation has made it certain that two and one make three, and that one is not three nor can three be one. We can never be so certain of any prophecy, or the fulfilment of any prophecy, or of any miracle, or the design of any miracle, as we are from the revelation of nature, that is, nature's God, that two and two are equal to four.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.