Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.