Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Man was made for joy and woe, and when this we rightly know through the world we safely go. Joy and woe are woven fine, a clothing for the soul to bind.

Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.

Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which all the passions emanate uncurbed in their eternal glory.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.