"The study of the original of our own ideas is, I confess, a dry and barren speculation."

"He who would make his son a good man, must begin betimes with him, and set him to rights, whilst he is flexible, and his mind is easy to be wrought upon."

"Every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."

"Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct."

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