Make the iron hot by striking it.

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.

Necessity has no law.

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.

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.

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

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.