Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!

There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

We have no poor houses in the Colonies, and if we had, we would have no one to put in them, as in the Colonies there is not a single unemployed man, no poor and no vagabonds.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.