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

"But if they will not be brought to embrace the true religion, and that for the salvation of their souls, what will become of them?"

"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."

"The common reason of mankind, which is the law of nature, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty,…"

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."