"The instruction of the people dependeth wholly on the right teaching of divinity."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"Rebellion is a disease that proceeds from the ignorance of the people, and the ambition of the few."

"For there is no such Finis Ultimus, (utmost aim,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest good,) as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live, whose desires are at an en…"

"Leisure is the mother of Philosophy."