Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business, they have no time to tend their health either of body or mind.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

I pretend not to teach, but to inquire.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle the just bounds that lie between the one and the other.