If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that’s your nature, but don’t lend it to your neighbours.
A man is related to all nature.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their magistrate.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.