The husband and wife are one, and that one is the husband.

Man must necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator. This will of his Maker is called the Law of Nature. This Law of Nature is superior to any other. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private.

To deny the possibility, nay, the actual existence of witchcraft and sorcery, is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God in various passages both of the Old and New Testament, and the thing itself is a Truth to which every nation in the world hath, in its turn, borne testimony, by either example seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws, which at least suppose the possibility of a commerce with evil spirits.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.