Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

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.

Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men do once see we love them, we should soon find they would not harm us.

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.