Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.

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.

Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.