Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.

If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life.

As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly.