Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

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

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.

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.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

He that would seriously set upon the search of truth, ought in the first place to prepare his mind with a love of it. For he that loves it not, will not take much pains to get it; nor be much concerned when he misses it.