No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
What worries you, masters you.
To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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.
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.
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.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.
Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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.
