God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.