In matters of conscience first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence last thoughts are best.
Robert Hall
Fanaticism is such an overwhelming impression of the ideas relating to the future world as disqualifies for the duties of life.
Robert Hall
Think not that guilt requires the burning torches of the Furies to agitate and torment it. Their own frauds, their crimes, their remembrances of the past, their terrors of the future,--these are the domestic furies that are ever present to the mind of the impious.
Robert Hall