Constant dropping wears away stones

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.

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.

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.