Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.

A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.