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.

Necessity is our quickest excuse.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

Dally not with other folk's spouses or money.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.

Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself.