All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.