He that cannot obey, cannot command.

No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state.

There are more old drunkards than old doctors.

I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven.

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.