The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

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

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression