A celebrated north country apostle, who, after Calvin had damned ninety-nine in a hundred of mankind, had contrived a scheme for damning ninety-nine in a hundred of the followers of Calvin.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Let us not, in the eagerness of our haste to educate, forget all the ends of education.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.