A man in earnest finds means or, if he cannot find, creates them.

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.

The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.