Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

God sends us the poor to try us.... And he that refuses them a little out of the great deal that God has given lays up poverty in store for his own posterity.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

If we would mend the World, we should mend Ourselves; and teach our Children to be, not what we are, but what they should be.

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.