Who lies for you will lie against you.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

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.

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.