The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.

Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

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

If to break loose from the bounds of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the worst, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already.