Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.