We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.