We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

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

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.