The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.