"The mind receives a great variety of impressions, and is capable of an infinite variety of thoughts."

"Nobody can be forced to be rich or healthy whether he will or no."

"God, when he gave the world to men in common, commanded man also to labour, and the penury of his condition required it of him."

"Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him."

"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."