Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.