“Character is much easier kept than recovered.”

“Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.”

“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.”

“Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying”

“Time makes more converts than reason.”

“Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.”

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”