Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

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.

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.

Who lies for you will lie against you.