To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.
But make not more business necessary than is so; and rather lessen than augment work for thyself.
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
It is not only a troublesome but slavish to be nice [fastidious].
Perfect love casteth out fear.
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.