Love is the piety of the affections.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.

There is no college for the conscience.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.