Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon it, I desire it may be considered what kind of Peace there will be in the World, which consists only in Violence and Rapine; and which is to be maintained only for the benefit of Robbers and Oppressors.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone

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.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.