The Greatest Part Cannot Know, And Therefore

Success In Fighting Means Not Coming At Your Opponent The Way He Wants To Fight You.

The Dread Of Evil Is A Much More Forcible Principle Of Human Actions Than The Prospect Of Good.

It Is Ambition Enough To Be Employed As An Under-labourer In Clearing The Ground A Little, And Removing Some Of The Rubbish That Lies In The Way To Knowledge.

To Give A Man Full Knowledge Of Morality, I Would Send Him To No Other Book Than The New Testament.

Let The Awe [the Teacher] Has Upon [children's] Minds Be So Tempered With The Constant Marks Of Tenderness And Good Will, That Affection May Spur Them To Their Duty, And Make Them Find A Pleasure In Complying With His Dictates. This Will Bring Them With Satisfaction To Their Tutor; Make Them Hearken To Him, As To One Who Is Their Friend, That Cherishes Them, And Takes Pains For Their Good; This Will Keep Their Thoughts Easy And Free, Whilst They Are With Him, The Only Temper Wherein The Mind Is Capable Of Receiving New Information, And Of Admitting Into Itself Those Impressions.