. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money to defray the expenses of their funerals, and their memories will be incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as monuments of other men are overgrown with moss; for our Friends have no place in the graveyard.

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.