"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

"A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it."

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed."

"All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"Men generally believe what they wish."

"Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, 'I don't know.'"

"You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way."

"In one celebrated incident, 300 members of Church of the New Song requested $6000 worth of filet mignon and Harvey's Bristol Cream for a crucial religious ceremony at the federal prison in Atlanta."