Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

For that which you mention concerning liberty of conscience, I meddle not with any man's conscience.

In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on adequate grounds for which do not presently exist. Therefore advise that Charles be assassinated, but will have nothing to do with arrangements for procuring an assassin, though willing to help in his escape. [King Charles I was in prison at the time].

Because I fear God, I have no man to fear.

He who stops being better stops being good.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.