He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty. - Samuel Johnson

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.