Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous—to poetry.
Science is the light that illuminates the darkness of ignorance.
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.