A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, becaus ...

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own ...

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.