I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

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.

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

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.