There is no passion that so much transports men from their right judgments as anger. No one would demur upon punishing a judge with death who should condemn a criminal upon the account of his own choler; why then should fathers and pedants be any more allowed to whip and chastise children in their anger? It is then no longer correction bat revenge. Chastisement is instead of physic to children; and should we suffer a physician who should be animated against and enraged at his patient?

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think

Reason has so many forms that we do not know which to choose-Experiment has no fewer.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Those things that are dearest to us have cost us the most.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.