"The thoughts of a child are of so little consequence to the world, that it is no matter how incoherent they are."

"Though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of pr…"

"There cannot be a more dangerous thing to a man, than to be a slave to his own passions."

"He that knows the world, will not be too fastidious, or censorious of the manners of others."

"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community."