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.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.

If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.