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" There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. "

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

" New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. "

" An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. "

" One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. "

" The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure. "

" A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else. "

" We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. "

" Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. "

" Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. "

" Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. "

" What worries you, masters you. "

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

" There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men. "

" 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. "

" All wealth is the product of labor. "

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

" Where there is no property there is no injustice. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. "

" It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. "

" It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. "

" No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. "

" Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time. "

" The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. "

" Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love. "

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

" Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. "

" Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. "