Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?

[I]t being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred: and one may destroy a man who makes war upon him, or has discovered an enmity to his being, for the same reason that he may kill a Wolf or a lion.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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