Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

If you would not be forgotten, do things worth remembering.

To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers.

I wish it (Christianity) were more productive of good works ... I mean real good works ... not holy day keeping, sermon-hearing ... or making long prayers, filled with flatteries and compliments despised by wise men, and much less capable of pleasing the Deity.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.