I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

I concur with you strictly in your opinion of the comparative merits of atheism and demonism, and really see nothing but the latter in the being worshipped by many who think themselves Christians.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Our part is to pursue with steadiness what is right, turning neither to right nor left for the intrigues or popular delusions of the day, assured that the public approbation will in the end be with us.