The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.