There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue - the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us.
Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.