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.

Truth certainly would do well enough, if she were once left to shift for herself...She is not taught by laws, nor has she any need of force, to procure her entrance into the minds of men.

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

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

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.