The real essence, the internal qualities, and constitution of even the meanest object, is hid from our view; something there is inevery drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the power of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But it is evidentthat we are influenced by false principles to that degree as to mistrust our senses, and think we know nothing of those things which we perfectly comprehend.

To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.

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

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!