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.

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

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Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

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We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

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Never despise what you don't understand.

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

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

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Oppression makes a poor country.

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Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

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The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

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