It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

God, when he makes the prophet, does not unmake the man.

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

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it.

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone