There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly terrible to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a free press.

The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.

I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty, provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

For the LORD will not cast away his people, for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.

If you can't give me your word of honour, will you give me your promise?

The first point of justice ... consists in piety; nothing certainly being so great a debt upon us as to render to the Creator and Preserver those acknowledgments which are due to Him for our being and the hourly protection He affords us.