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

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

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

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.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

I do not deny the existence of material substance merely because I have no notion of it, but because the notion of it is inconsistent, or in other words, because it is repugnant that there should be a notion of it.