When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing: and the honour and renown that is bestowed on conquerors (who for the most part are but the great butchers of mankind) farther mislead growing youth, who by this means come to think slaughter the laudable business of mankind, and the most heroic of virtues.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.