I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

All wealth is the product of labor.

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

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

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.