You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

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

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.