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

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.”

“If men be good, government cannot be bad.”

“Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee”

“A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it.”

“This is the comfort of the godly: the grave cannot hold them, and they live as soon as they die.For death is no more than turning us over from time to eternity.”

“My prison will be my grave before I budge a jot, for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”