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

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

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

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

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

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