Great Throughts Treasury

"Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee."

"What a sea of melting ice I walk on!"

"'Tis the only discipline we are born for; all studies else are but as circular lines, and death the center where they all must meet."

"The soul is strong that trusts in goodness."

"Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness."

"We, that would be known the father of our people, in our study, and vigilance for their safety, must not change their ploughshares into swords, and force them from the secure shade of their own vines, to be scorched with the flames of war."

"What can innocence hope for when such as sit her judges are corrupted!"

"You may boldly say, you did not plough or trust the barren and ungrateful sands with the fruitful grain of your religious counsels."

"You have not, as good patriots should do, studied the public good, but your particular ends: Factious among yourselves; preferring such to offices and honors, as ne'er read the elements of saving policy; but deeply skill'd in all the principles that usher to destruction."