We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them

I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

We ought to cherish the body. Our body’s substance is not from an evil principle, as the Manicheans imagine, but from God. And therefore, we ought to cherish the body by the friendship of love, by which we love God

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.