Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Children generally hate to be idle; all the care then is that their busy humour should be constantly employed in something of use to them

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

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

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.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.