It was said of him that he did not say much, but that when he did everyone stopped to listen.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.

We can defer, yet time is most certainly not.

I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.