15. “There cannot be greater
rudeness than to interrupt
another in the current of his
discourse.”
“What worries you, masters
you.”
“The actions of men are the
best interpreters of their
thoughts.”
16. “All mankind... being all equal
and independent, no one ought
to harm another in his
life, health, liberty or
possessions.”
“The dread of evil is a much
more forcible principle of
human actions than the
prospect of good.”
17. “Reading furnishes the mind
only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that
makes what we read ours.”
“Man... hath by nature a power
.... to preserve his property -
that is, his life, liberty, and
estate - against the injuries and
attempts of other men.”
18. “The improvement of
understanding is for two ends:
first, our own increase of
knowledge; secondly, to enable
us to deliver that knowledge to
others”
“Government has no other
end, but the preservation of
property.”
19. “Every man has a property in his
own person. This nobody has a
right to, but himself.”
“No man's knowledge here can
go beyond his experience.”
“Liberty is to be free from
restraint and violence from
others”
20. “There is frequently more to be
learned from the unexpected
questions of a child than the
discourses of men.”
“Parents wonder why the
streams are bitter, when they
themselves have poisoned the
fountain.”
21. “We are like chameleons, we
take our hue and the color of
our moral character, from those
who are around us.”
“New opinions are always
suspected, and usually
opposed, without any other
reason but because they are not
already common.”
22. “Reverie is when ideas float in
our mind without reflection or
regard of the understanding.”
“Where all is but
dream, reasoning and
arguments are of no use, truth
and knowledge nothing.”
“Where there is no desire, there
will be no industry”
23. “Reading furnishes the mind
only with material for
knowledge; it is thinking that
makes what we read ours.”
“The reason why men enter
into society is the preservation
of their property.”
“All wealth is the product of
labor.”
