Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.