Justice and truth are the common ties of society

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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

'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?