Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

Try all things, hold fast that which is good.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

Children have as much mind to show that they are free, that their own good actions come from themselves, that they are absolute and independent, as any of the proudest of you grown men, think of them as you please.