“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.”

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

“They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.(Frequently misquoted as "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.")”

“Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.”

“I will never do this, says one, yet does it: I am resolved to do this, says another; but flags upon second Thoughts: Or does it, tho’ awkwardly, for his Word’s sake: As if it were worse to break his Word, than to do amiss in keeping it.”

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”

“Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.”