May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Knowledge is essential to freedom.

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.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

A man might pass for insane who should see things as they are.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt.