All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by god on the children of men. It has god for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. it is all pure
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Every man has a property in his own person. this nobody has a right to, but himself.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; a villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
all wealth is the product of labor
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.