Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

In all conversation between two persons, tacit reference is made, as to a third party, to a common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal; is God.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.