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

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

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

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

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

To be is to be perceived

If what you mean by the word "matter" be only the unknown support of unknown qualities, it is no matter whether there is such a thing or no, since it no way concerns us; and I do not see the advantage there is in disputing about what we know not what, and we know not why.