All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
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.
We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are the signs of our ideas only and not for things themselves.
All men are liable to error and most men are ... by passion or interest under temptation to it.
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
So that, in effect, 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 irration...
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 thoughts that come often unsought and as it were drop into the mind are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
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.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
God when he makes the prophet does not unmake the man.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
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.