"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world."

"It is ambition enough to be employed in the search of truth, without minding what follows."

"Men, being by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent."

"Parents have a power over their children, to support and govern them for their good, till they are of capacity to shift for themselves."

"Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property."