I am convinced that we become what we do.
To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.
Argument is not always truth.
I consider that it is on instruction and education that the future security and direction of the destiny of every nation chiefly and fundamentally rests.
Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality.
Light has spread, and even bayonets think.
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.
It would seem to me that I was committing a theft if I were to let one day go by without doing some work.
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
Far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285-337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.
we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.