I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

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

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

In the beginning, all the world was America.