An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is sensible of, and of which every other is equally sensible. Yours and mine are terms in all languages, familiar among savages, and understood even by children. This is a fact, which every human creature can testify.