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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
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.
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.