To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.