Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

Reason, if consulted with, would advise, that their children's time should be spent in acquiring what might be useful to them when they come to be men, rather than to have their heads stuff'd with a deal of trash, a great part whereof they usually never do ('tis certain they never need to) think on again as long as they live: and so much of it as does stick by them they are only the worse for.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

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

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.