"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 only fences against the world are a thorough knowledge of it, into which a man should be entered by degrees as he can bear it; and a perfect ignorance of it, which is a state of innocence."

"Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins."

"Reason, which is the common rule and measure God hath given to mankind."

"The power of the husband is so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate herself from him, where natural right or their contract allows it."