Accuse not nature, she hath done her part Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
• He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a King.
• Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
• None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
• Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
• He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
• Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
• How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year.
• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.