There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

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.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

It is reported of that prodigy of parts, Monsieur Pascal, that till the decay of his health had impaired his memory, he forgot nothing of what he had done, read, or thought, in any part of his rational age. This is a privilege so little known to most men, that it seems almost incredible to those who, after the ordinary way, measure all others by themselves; but yet, when considered, may help us to enlarge our thoughts towards greater perfections of it, in superior ranks of spirits.

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