There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.
Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.
Don't tell me what I can't do!
Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.
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.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
Firmness or stiffness of the mind is not from adherence to truth, but submission to prejudice.
What if everything that happened here, happened for a reason?
Success in fighting means not coming at your opponent the way he wants to fight you.
The great art to learn much is to undertake a little at a time.
It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.
Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.
When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
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