No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Great learning and superior abilities will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honour, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

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

Those who live to live forever, never fear dying.

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

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.