I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

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

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

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.