Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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.

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.