I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.