The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.