“It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.”

None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.

Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?

None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.

He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.

No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.

That power is in vain which is never in use.

Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.

Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.

Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.

The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

An author’s first duty is to let down his country.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that’s inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.

For the first time, you can actually see the losers turn green

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

First the pork chops, then morality

The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

The first thing the federal government can do to help is get out of the way.