Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

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.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

God helps those who help themselves.

Beer is God's way of telling us that he loves us and wants us to be happy.

When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.