Let men be good, and the Government cannot be bad.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by true obedience to rules of their own making.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.