Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.

Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.

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.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.