The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. An…

The world's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.

Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as the religion of the emp…

The truth is, that in favor of almost every sect, the names of some great men can he pronounced.