“I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.”

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

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

“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.”

“Let us try what love will do.”

“Time is what we want most,but what we use worst.”

“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”