All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

Thus the law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other mens actions, must, as well as their own and other mens actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law of nature being the preservation of mankind, no human sanction can be good, or valid against it.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.