"The chief business of the senses is to inform the mind of what passes without."

"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."

"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."

"Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural facu…"

"The law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world, be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innoc…"