In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.