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

Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

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.