“In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith,but by the Lack of it.”

“Nine men in ten are suicides.”

“If you FAIL to PLAN. You PLAN to FAIL.”

“You only have the right to pursue happiness; you have to catch it yourself.”

“If you have a bald head don't walk out in the sun because you will get burned.”

“If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.[Letter to the London Packet, 3 June 1772]”

“There was never a bad peace or a good war.”