"The common reason of mankind, which is the law of nature, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty,…"

"For I confess myself to have been guilty of the same error, of not having looked far enough into the nature of the thing."

"Though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of pr…"

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common."

"It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach."