Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

To know truly is to know by causes.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind.

By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.