1. “The only defense against the world is a through knowledge of it.”
2. “Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.”
3. “What worries you, masters you.”
4. “It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.”
5. “There is frequently more to be learned from unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.”
6. “Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.”
7. “The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.”
8. “Business of man is to be happy.”
9. “Where there is no property there is no Injustice.”
10. Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.”
11. “There are thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.”
12. “The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
13. “We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.”
14. “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.”
15. “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.”
16. “Revolt is the right of the people.”
17. “All wealth is the product of labor.”
18. “Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.”
19. “The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.”
20. “Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.”
21. “As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.”
22. “Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
23. “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
24. “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
25. “Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.”
