Truth, Like Gold, Is Not Less So

I Find Every Sect, As Far As Reason Will Help Them, Make Use Of It Gladly: And Where It Fails Them, They Cry Out, It Is A Matter Of Faith, And Above Reason.

Whoso Sheddeth Man's Blood, By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed.

Truth Then Seems To Me, In The Proper Import Of The Word, To Signify Nothing But The Joining Or Separating Of Signs, As The Things Signified By Them Do Agree Or Disagree One With Another. The Joining Or Separating Of Signs Here Meant, Is What By Another Name We Call proposition. So That Truth Properly Belongs Only To Propositions: Whereof There Are Two Sorts, Viz. Mental And Verbal; As There Are Two Sorts Of Signs Commonly Made Use Of, Viz. Ideas And Words.

If Punishment Reaches Not The Mind And Makes Not The Will Supple, It Hardens The Offender.

Let Not Men Think There Is No Truth, But In The Sciences That They Study, Or The Books That They Read.