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.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

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

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold