Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?