The Clergy Complain Of The Enormous Spread

It Matters Infinitely Less What We Do Than What We Are.

I Certainly Had No Idea How Little Faith Christians Have In Their Own Faith Till I Saw How Ill Their Courage And Temper Can Stand Any Attack On It.

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.

[on Being Deaf:] How Much Less Pain There Is In Calmly Estimating The Enjoyments From Which We Must Separate Ourselves, Of Bravely Saying, For Once And For Ever, 'let Them Go,' Than In Feeling Them Waste And Dwindle, Till Their Very Shadows Escape From Our Grasp!

The Last Thing It [government] Ought To Do Is To Ground Its Proceedings On The Ignorance Of The People, - To Yield Them That Which They Will Hereafter Despise The Donors For Granting Them.