[Christianity] neither enjoins the nastiness of the Cynic, nor the insensibility of the Stoic.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, to wit, that we are under an invincible blindness as to the true and real nature of things.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.