QUOTES
All
mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his
life, health, liberty or possessions.
One
unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater
assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
It
is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession
of truth.
Justice
and truth are the common ties of society
A
sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state
in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that
wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
Reading
furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes
what we read ours.
The
improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge;
secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
There
cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
There
is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than
the discourses of men.
To
love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that
by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
We
should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they
are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
What
worries you, masters you.
“The
end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law,
there is no freedom.”
He
that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have
a great reverence for his son.
Wherever
Law ends, Tyranny begins.
Education
begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
I
have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
New
opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but
because they are not already common.
No
man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
