Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

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.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

You must always be prepared. Make sure to look at things from all angles. If you are not prepared you will fail.

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.