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!

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

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

All those who write either explicitly or by insinuation against the dignity, freedom, and immortality of the human soul, may so far forth be justly said to unhinge the principles of morality, and destroy the means of making men reasonably virtuous.

Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.

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

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.