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

"The only security against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."

"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."

"The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs... has been, not whether there be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who…"

"The power of the legislative, being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than what that positive grant conveyed."