A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.

A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it.

Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.