Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

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.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

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.

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.