The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?