It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.
The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
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.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.