A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.