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

Sir, what can be said of these things? Is it the arm of the flesh that hath done these things? Is it the wisdom and counsel, or strength of man? It is the Lord only. God will curse that man and his house that dares to think otherwise. Sir, you see the work is done by a Divine leading. God gets into the hearts of men, and persuades them to come under you.

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.