Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.