For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature. No one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.