Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.