Don't tell me what I can't do!

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it and from thence penet into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

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