Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

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!

To me it seems that liberty and virtue were made for each other. If any man wish to enslave his country, nothing is a fitter preparative than vice; and nothing leads to vice so surely as irreligion.

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

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

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.