People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.