Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body when they are not taken, and antidotes are received against them.

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage.