I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.