It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

When in doubt, don't.

They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.