If we trace the progress of our minds, and with attention observe how it repeats, adds together, and unites its simple ideas received from sensation or reflection, it will lead us farther than at first, perhaps, we should have imagined.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss