Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

Hence it is a mistake to think, that the supreme or legislative power of any common-wealth, can do what it will, and dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure.

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

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.