Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty that accompanies what is natural.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.
God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.
Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man’s own mind.
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.
When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
In the beginning, all the world was America.
It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.
Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge. The great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.
Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.
The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.