There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Whosoever is found variable, and changeth manifestly without manifest cause, giveth suspicion of corruption: therefore, always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, and declare it, together with the reasons that move thee to change.

Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called virtue.

Let not men think there is no truth, but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read.

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

When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and capacities; and in the morality of it now, with divine authority, established into a legible law, so far surpassing all that philosophy and human reason had attained to, or could possibly make effectual to all degrees of man kind; I was flattered to think it might be of some use in the world.