If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.