"The greatest part of mankind, though they have the use of reason, yet they do not use it to that end."

"Nature hath made men so equal, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind than another; yet when all is reckone…"

"For there is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense."

"For he that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind."

"The power of a man, (to take it universally,) is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good."