If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

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

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.