He That Speaks Much, Is Much Mistaken.

Success Is The Residue Of Planning.

If We Look Back Into History For The Character Of The Present Sects In Christianity, We Shall Find Few That Have Not In Their Turns Been Persecutors, And Complainers Of Persecution. The Primitive Christians Thought Persecution Extremely Wrong In The Pagans, But Practised It On One Another.

There Cannot Be Good Living Where There Is Not Good Drinking.

I Wish It (christianity) Were More Productive Of Good Works ... I Mean Real Good Works ... Not Holy Day Keeping, Sermon-hearing ... Or Making Long Prayers, Filled With Flatteries And Compliments Despised By Wise Men, And Much Less Capable Of Pleasing The Deity.

My Dear Friend, Do Not Imagine That I Am Vain Enough To Ascribe Our Success [revolution] To Any Superiority . . . If It Had Not Been For The Justice Of Our Cause, And The Consequent Interposition Of Providence, In Which We Had Faith, We Must Have Been Ruined. If I Had Ever Before Been An Atheist, I Should Now Have Been Convinced Of The Being And Government Of A Deity!