Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

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

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

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.

Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.