The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

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

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

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

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.