That which parents should take care of... is to distinguish between the wants of fancy, and those of nature.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

All wealth is the product of labor.

[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.