All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement.

Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.