Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

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