"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world."

"The power of the husband is so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate herself from him, where natural right or their contract allows it."

"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 joyn and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, sa…"

"The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate."