When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.
As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts.
Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.