Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

Behold, now, another providence of God. A ship comes into the harbor.

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

The loss of...honest and industrious men's lives cannot be valued at any price.

The LORD is the help of my life

We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

I believe in a higher consciousness. I also believe that nature is supremely conscious. A tree is more conscious than we are.

God will the way.

She has been surprised by grief, its constancy, its immediacy, its unrelenting physical pain.

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.