Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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

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.

Clear therefore thy head, and rally, and manage thy thoughts rightly, and thou wilt save time, and see and do thy business well; for thy judgment will be distinct, thy mind free, and the faculties strong and regular.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

No people can be truly happy... if abridged of the freedom of their consciences

Be sure that religion cannot be right that a man is the worse for having.