No religion is better than an unnatural one.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

I have sometimes thought that people are, in a sort, happy, that nothing can put out of countenance with themselves, though they neither have nor merit other people's.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.