"To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues."

"He who would make his son a good man, must begin betimes with him, and set him to rights, whilst he is flexible, and his mind is easy to be wrought upon."

"All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points erroneous."

"The greatest part of mankind are more disposed to suffer, whilst evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

"The care of our souls is not committed to the civil magistrate, any more than to other men."