Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

The Church which taught men not to keep faith with heretics, had no claim to toleration.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.