Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

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

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.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my Liberty, would not when he had me in his Power, take away everything else.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

If all be a Dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the Question; and so it is not much matter that a waking Man should answer him.