Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, take notice, also, that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together... which, by inadvertency, we apt afterward to talk of and condier as one simple idea.

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

So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight.

He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.