A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.