Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

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.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.