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 | "Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, it lost
in a young man, is seldom recovered." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters
of their thoughts." | |
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Found in the topic Action.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only
words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not
for things themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Word.
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| "Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have
poisoned the fountain." | |
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Found in the topic Parents.
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| "The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our
own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out
that knowledge to others." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "No man"s knowledge here can go beyond his experience." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "Religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought
most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is
that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than
beasts themselves." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by
passion or interest, under temptation to it." | |
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Found in the topic Error.
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| "Probability is a kind of penance, which God made, suitable, I
presume to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been
pleased to place us in here; wherein, to check our over-confidence and
presumption, we might, by every day"s experience, be made sensible of our
short-sightedness, and liableness to error." | |
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Found in the topic Probability.
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| "Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins." | |
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Found in the topic Law.
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| "New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any
other reason but because they are not already common." | |
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Found in the topic Opinion.
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| "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their
property." | |
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Found in the topic Society.
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| "If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the
offender." | |
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Found in the topic Punish.
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| "Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard
of the understanding." | |
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Found in the topic Quiet.
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| "Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the
property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary
power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are
thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common
refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and
violence." | |
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Found in the topic Revolution.
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| "It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to
put him in possession of truth." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a
happy state in this world." | |
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Found in the topic Health.
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| "The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into
the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have, and therefore
should be secured, because they seldom return again." | |
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Found in the topic Thief.
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| "That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is
dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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