"The greatest part of our knowledge is founded on observation and experience."

"The great business of the senses is to take in the ideas of external objects."

"For in all the states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law, there is no freedom."

"The necessity of believing, without a perfect comprehension, is a great part of the discipline of the mind."

"The commonwealth ought to determine what punishments shall be inflicted on those who transgress the laws."