"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

"The common reason of mankind, which is the law of nature, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty,…"

"Every man has a property in his own person: this no body has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his."

"The mind is like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas."

"The power of the husband is so far from that of an absolute monarch, that the wife has in many cases a liberty to separate herself from him, where natural right or their contract allows it."