As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.