Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of.