Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.

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.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.