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

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

Some people have food, but no appetite; others have an appetite, but no food. I have both. The Lord be praised.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

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].