It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

The native and untaught suggestions of inquisitive children do often offer things, that may set a considering man's thoughts on work. And I think there is frequently more to be learn'd from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed, and the prejudices of their education.