Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

It [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.