Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten.

And whether you're an honest man, or whether you're a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively.

He that won't be counseled can't be helped. He that would have a short Lent, let him borrow Money to be repaid at Easter.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Grievances cannot be redressed until they are known; and they cannot be known but through complaints and petitions. If these are deemed affronts, and the messengers punished as offenders, who will henceforth send petitions? And who will deliver them? Wise governments encouraged the airing of grievances, even those that were lightly founded Foolish governments did the opposite - to their peril. Where complaining is a crime, hope becomes despair.

Where liberty is, there is my country.