For we put the power in the people.

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Five things are requisite to a good officer — ability, clean hands, despatch, patience, and impartiality.

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.