That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

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

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.