Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

To be deep in history, is to cease to be Protestant.

Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.