Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.
Anything less than full justice is cruelty.
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.