Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.