Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

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.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Long discourses, and philosophical readings, at best, amaze and confound, but do not instruct children. When I say, therefore, that they must be treated as rational creatures, I mean that you must make them sensible, by the mildness of your carriage, and in the composure even in the correction of them, that what you do is reasonable in you, and useful and necessary for them; and that it is not out of caprichio, passion or fancy, that you command or forbid them any thing.

For a man's property is not at all secure, though there be good and equitable laws to set the bounds of it, between him and his fellow subjects, if he who commands those subjects, have power to take from any private man, what part he pleases of his property, and use and dispose of it as he thinks good.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.