To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

No man in civil society can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to affirm.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

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