Interest has the security, though not the virtue of a principle. As the world goes, it is the surest side; for men daily leave both relations and religion to follow it.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

Eat... to live, and do not live to eat.

It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any.

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.