It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our...

For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good...

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

It is so vital to everybody who has a stake in the downtown. It is vital to anyone who lives here. It is going to put us on the map.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to...

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

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 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...

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

Logic is the anatomy of thought

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

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

Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

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...

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins

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.

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

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

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.

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

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.

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

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...

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

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

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom...

All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

Liberty is not an Idea belonging to Volition, or preferring; but to the Person having the Power of doing, or forbearing to do, according as the Mind shall chuse or direct.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry

No man’s knowledge here can go beyond experience. (An Essay concerning Human Understanding.)

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.

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.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

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.

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

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