Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

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.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.