A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.

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

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

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