Where there is no property there is no injustice.- John Locke
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
What worries you, masters you.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
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.
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.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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 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.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
