Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.