As often as we do good, we sacrifice.

Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . .

When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.

Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.

Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good.

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.