"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fan…"

"All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it."

"The knowledge of man's self is the beginning of all wisdom."

"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being found in the dirt."