We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane? The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.