Things are achieved when they are well begun.

It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Better a false belief than no belief at all.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Breed is stronger than pasture.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.