"The private judgment of every particular person concerning the truth or falsehood of any doctrine, or the sincerity of any worship, cannot be over-ruled by the public authority of the commonwealth."

"The knowledge of man's self is the beginning of all wisdom."

"I here put the case of a man, whose mind is so far out of order, that he takes himself to be a king."

"We are born with faculties and powers, capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can be easily imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us abil…"

"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,…"