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

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and presumption, we might, by every day's experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error.

Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.