Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Set the mind to work, and apply the thoughts vigorously to the business, for it holds in the struggles of the mind, as in those of war, that to think we shall conquer is to conquer.

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

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.