The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

Once you start something, finish it. Never give up...

Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do

Everything that God gives to us is to be used for the establishing of His Kingdom here on earth.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

To get scared is something not in my personality.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.