"He that knows the world, will not be too fastidious, or censorious of the manners of others."

"There cannot be a more dangerous thing to a man, than to be a slave to his own passions."

"The great and chief end, therefore, of men's uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property."

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."

"The chief business of the senses is to inform the mind of what passes without."