Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man; insomuch, that if it issue not towards men, it will take unto other living creatures; as it is seen in the Turks, cruel people, who, nevertheless, are kind to beasts, and give alms to dogs and birds.

Don't let the things you don't have prevent you from using what you do have.

All wealth is the product of labor.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not dig and search for it as for gold and hid treasure; but he that does so, must have much earth and rubbish, before he gets the pure metal; sand, and pebbles, and dross usually lie blended with it, but the gold is nevertheless gold, and will enrich the man that employs his pains to seek and separate it.