Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

Who lies for you will lie against you.