Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
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 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.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
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.
All men are liable to error and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.