With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.