To understand something is to be delivered of it.

Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine nature is eminently circular; and thus would every one ascribe his own attributes to God.