The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

To those we love best we say the least

My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions.

They that make laws must not break them.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

Spend and be free, but make no waste.