It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

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

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?