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.

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

Make the iron hot by striking it.

Does a man speak foolishly?--suffer him gladly, for you are wise. Does he speak erroneously?--stop such a man's mouth with sound words that cannot be gainsaid. Does he speak truly?--rejoice in the truth.

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

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

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.