How then shall they have the play-games you allow them, if none must be bought for them?" I answer, they should make them themselves, or at least endeavour it, and set themselves about it. ...And if you help them where they are at a stand, it will more endear you to them than any chargeable toys that you shall buy for them.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison doors set open to him, is perfectly at liberty, because he may either go or stay, as he best likes; though his preference be determined to stay, by the darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want of other lodging.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.