It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

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.