Since the great foundation of fear is pain, the way to harden and fortify children against fear and danger is to accustom them to suffer pain.

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

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.

One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.