He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.

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

Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages.

A lighthouse is more useful than a church.