When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in--woe be to truth!

Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.