"And are we not to use our reason? Unquestionably. But no more than we are to use our hands or feet. We are to use it as a servant, not as a master."

"I have not found one single man, among all those I have conversed with, who is able to give a rational account of the difference between an honest man and a rogue."

"I am never long in one place. I am a bird of passage, always on the wing."

"I have often thought, that the best way to do good, is to do it as if you were doing it for yourself."

"I still find, and find it to my comfort, that I am not in the number of the rich. If I am not, I am not in the number of them that are in danger of falling into temptation and a snare, and into many f…"