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.

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

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.