When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before.

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.