A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

It is safer to learn than teach; and who conceals his opinion has nothing to answer for.

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

It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and without fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.