He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

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.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.