"The people cannot be safe, though the form of the commonwealth be never so exactly framed, unless they have a right to change the legislative power, when they find the legislative act contrary to the …"

"The only way whereby any one divests himself of his Natural Liberty, and puts on the bonds of Civil Society, is by agreeing with other Men to joyn and unite into a Community, for their comfortable, sa…"

"The study of the original of our own ideas is, I confess, a dry and barren speculation."

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

"To be happy, then, is to have a sound mind in a sound body, and to be well provided with the necessaries of life."