It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.