Annual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith.

Courteous Reader, Astrology is one of the most ancient Sciences, held in high esteem of old, by the Wise and the Great. Formerly, no Prince would make War or Peace, nor any General fight in Battle, in short, no important affair was undertaken without first consulting an Astrologer.

I have so much faith in the general government of the world by Providence that I can hardly conceive a transaction of such momentous importance [as the framing of the Constitution] ... should be suffered to pass without being in some degree influenced, guided, and governed by that omnipotent, omnipresent, and beneficent Ruler in whom all inferior spirits live and move and have their being.

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

The best way to help the poor is to make them uncomfortable in their own poverty.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.