Little strokes fell great oaks.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.

Half-wits talk much, but say little.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

[It was] the poverty caused by the bad influence of the English bankers on the Parliament which has caused in the colonies hatred of the English and . . . the Revolutionary War.

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.