"The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

"The power of the husband is so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate herself from him, where natural right or their contract allows it."

"The works of nature and the works of art are but the outside and rind of the world."

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

"Every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."