We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

God is thy law, thou mine.