Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.