"Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins."

"God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and convenience, it cannot be supposed he meant it should always remain common and u…"

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World."

"The mind, by being open to conviction, and ready to embrace truth for its own sake, has a free use of its faculties, and a fair opportunity of attaining to a great perfection."

"It is not the business of the law to make men good, but to keep them from being bad."