When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.

It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.

Mankind have their local attachments. They have a particular regard for the spot, in which they were born and nurtured.

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvellous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.