[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.

And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

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

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.

For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.