To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us..

The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness..

Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit..

A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed..

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a ….

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing..

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinc….

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refut….

Those that govern most make least noise..

There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible..

First, in your sermons, use your logic, and then your rhetoric; Rhetoric without logic, is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root; yet mor….

Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think..

The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes..

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess..

Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty..

A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets ….

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear..

Old friends are best..

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain..

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that i….

The House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament; but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?.