All men have opinions, but few think.

Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

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.

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