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

When you are finished changing, you are finished.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness.

You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!

Beauty and folly are old companions.