Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

What worries you, masters you.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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