"The thoughts of a child are of so little consequence to the world, that it is no matter how incoherent they are."

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

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

"There is no such thing as an innate idea."

"The study of the original of our own ideas is, I confess, a dry and barren speculation."