To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.

Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Praise little, dispraise less.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.