Laws provide, as much as ispossible that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others. They do not guard them from thenegligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

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

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.