Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

No man's body is as strong as his appetites, but Heaven has corrected the boundlessness of his voluptuous desires by stinting his strength and contracting his capacities.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.