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

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

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.

Revolt is the right of the people

So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

Not time is the measure of movement but: ...each constant periodic appearance of ideas.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

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.

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.

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

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

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.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

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