"I have always thought that there is a good deal of cant in the common talk about the advantages of poverty."

"But if they will not be brought to embrace the true religion, and that for the salvation of their souls, what will become of them?"

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

"A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World."

"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community."