Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.

You are Englishmen; mind your privileges, give not away your right.

The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

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.

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.