Quotes

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

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

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed.

Reason teaches all mankind that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another.

Government has no other end than the preservation of property.

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

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Every man contains within him all the possibilities of the universe.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met.