There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Had you or I been born at the Bay of Soldania, possibly our Thoughts, and Notions, had not exceeded those brutish ones of the Hotentots that inhabit there: And had the Virginia King Apochancana, been educated in England, he had, perhaps been as knowing a Divine, and as good a Mathematician as any in it. The difference between him, and a more improved English-man, lying barely in this, That the exercise of his Facilities was bounded within the Ways, Modes, and Notions of his own Country, and never directed to any other or farther Enquiries.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.