I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

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

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.

To be is to be perceived

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

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 table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.