It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.