The next thing is by gentle degrees to accustom children to those things they are too much afraid of. But here great caution is to be used, that you do not make too much haste, nor attempt this cure too early, for fear lest you increase the mischief instead of remedying it.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

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

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

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

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.