An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.
Wisdom is not the purchase of a day
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.