All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

He that lives well, is learned enough.

A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?

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.

If you, do what you should not, you must bear what you would not.

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.