Great talkers, little doers.

He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

I am lord of myself, accountable to none.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.