The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.