Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.

A gentleman is not disturbed by anything

Justice is Equality...but equality of what?

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.

Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

All men by nature desire knowledge.