"All men are naturally in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leav…"

"The Bible is a book of faith, and not of science."

"I have always found that the best way to learn anything is to teach it to others."

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