Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule; and you may as well hope to make a good painter, or musician, extempore, by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.