 God made them as stubble to our swords. |
| Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will. |
| No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. |
| Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry. |
| What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted. |
| A few honest men are better than numbers. |
| I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. |
| We are Englishmen; that is one good fact. |
| He who stops being better stops being good. |
| Nature can do more than physicians. |
| Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. |
| I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. |
| Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose. |
| Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. |
| The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies. |
| Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry. |
| Necessity has no law. |
| I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. |
