Until the content of a belief is made clear, the appeal to accept the belief on faith is beside the point, for one would not know what one has accepted. The request for the meaning of a religious belief is logically prior to the question of accepting that belief on faith or to the question of whether that belief constitutes knowledge.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

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.

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

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

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.