"The greatest part of mankind are more influenced by example than by precept."

"The thoughts of a child are of so little consequence to the world, that it is no matter how incoherent they are."

"Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided, and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property."

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."

"The strength of a man's mind is only to be estimated by the weight of the truths it can contain."