"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed in the end of the 15th Chapter, are immutable and eternal."

"And consequently, where there is no common power, there is no law: where no law, no injustice."

"The science of every man's duty, which is called ethics, is nothing else but the knowledge of what is good and evil in the actions of men."