The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.

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

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.