The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.