Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated.

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

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

God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.