In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and illuding answers. They easily perceive when they are slighted or deceived, and quickly learn the trick of neglect, dissimulation, and falsehood, which they observe others to make use of. We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children; since, if we play false with them, we not only deceive their expectation, and hinder their knowledge, but corrupt their innocence, and teach them the worst of vices.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

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