We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.