Talk what you will of the Jews,--that they are cursed: they thrive wherever they come; they are able to oblige the prince of their country by lending….

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

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

Casting out devils is mere juggling; they never cast out any but what they first cast in..

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at ….

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish..

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

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain..

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….

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 ….

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

Those that govern most make least noise..

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….

Old friends are best..

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

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

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

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..