An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

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.

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.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

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