All men desire to be immortal.
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.
Nature is God's Old Testament.
No man is so great as mankind.
The most useful is the greatest.
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.