Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Don't tell me what I can't do!
He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.