"The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"Men, being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world."

"The study of the original of our own ideas is, I confess, a dry and barren speculation."