Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever.

I believe that everyone, some time or other, dreams that he is reading papers, books, or letters; in which case the invention prompts so readily that the mind is imposed upon, and mistakes its own suggestions for the composition of another.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.