“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom
“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others
“The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have
“Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant
“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
“We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves
“Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip
“To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.