Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.

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.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

For those who either perceive but dully, or retain the ideas that come into their minds but ill, who cannot readily excite or compound them, will have little matter to think on.