Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

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