The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.

The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.