The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.
The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.
It is a human tendency "to measure truth and error by our capacity."
We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.
True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything.
Persons of mean understandings, not so inquisitive, nor so well instructed, are made good Christians, and by reverence and obedience, implicity believe, and abide by their belief.