A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

If principle is good for anything, it is worth living up to.

History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern.

an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property.

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

But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.