Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.
To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.
A little neglect may breed great mischief.
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.