When ideas float in our mind, without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call reverie.

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.

Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected.

Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room; but they are therefore to be made with the greater care and caution, lest, if we take counterfeit for true, our loss and shame be the greater when our stock comes to a severe scrutiny.

There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.