Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When a Religion is good, I conceive that it will support itself; and, when it cannot support itself, and God does not take care to support, so that its Professors are oblig'd to call for the help of the Civil Power, it is a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.

If our great view is upon those of the next, the expectation of them is an infinitely higher satisfaction than the enjoyment of those of the present.

Many people die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons.