"It is ambition enough to be employed in the search of truth, without minding what follows."

"The commonwealth ought to determine what punishments shall be inflicted on those who transgress the laws."

"The works of nature and the works of art are but the outside and rind of the world."

"The private judgment of every particular person concerning the truth or falsehood of any doctrine, or the sincerity of any worship, cannot be over-ruled by the public authority of the commonwealth."

"I here put the case of a man, whose mind is so far out of order, that he takes himself to be a king."