Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

The utility of living consists not in the length of days, but in the use of time; a man may have lived long, and yet lived but a little.

If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.