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.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

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

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.