Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

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

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

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.

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

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.