"No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free."

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."

"Licence they mean when they cry liberty."

"He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honorablest things."

"Yet, when I consider that I am not to satisfy the vulgar, but those who are knowing, and lovers of truth, I am encouraged to proceed."