'Tis true that governments cannot be supported without great charge, and it is fit everyone who enjoys a share of protection should pay out of his estate his proportion of the maintenance of it.

And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of anybody, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.