People must have righteous principles in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. – Martin Luther
An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church. – Martin Luther
Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. – Martin Luther
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper