But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil and listen to him, not continually bawl words into his ears as if pouring water into a funnel. Good teaching will come from a mind well made rather than well filled.

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as an incomprehensible power, the original and preserver of all things, all goodness, all perfection, receiving and taking in good part the honour and reverence that man paid him, under what method, name, or ceremonies soever.

We are born to inquire into truth; it belongs to a greater to possess it

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.

No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.