“Every man for himself, his own ends, the Devil for all.”

“No man is a devil in his own mind.”

“Words paint to the imagination but every man forms the thing to himself in his own way.”

“It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.”

“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”

“Though the Earth, and all inferior Creatures be common to all Men, yet every Man has a Property in his own Person. Thus no Body has any Right to but himself.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.”

“The advanced state of civilized society does not recognize the right of one man to own another man against his will. The inalienable right of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, is conceded to all. The right of every man to himself, to enjoy the fruits of his own ingenuity and industry, are among the natural rights of every person made in the image of God.”

“And seeing every man is presumed to do all things in order to his own benefit, no man is a fit Arbitrator in his own cause:”