If thou wouldst rule well, thou must rule for God, and to do that, thou must be ruled by him. Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart, or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.