Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate

Logic is the anatomy of thought

There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time

If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender

All wealth is the product of labor.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

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

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

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression