 It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach. |
| All wealth is the product of labor. |
| 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 reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property. |
| We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us. |
| 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. |
| Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. |
| All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. |
| Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain. |
| 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. |
| Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. |
| 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. |
| Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. |
| There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. |
| It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. |
| 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. |
| What worries you, masters you. |
| The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good. |
| Government has no other end, but the preservation of property. |
| I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. |
