Slavery is so vile and miserable an Estate of Man, and so directly opposite to the generous Temper and Courage of our Nation; that 'tis hardly to be conceived, that an Englishman, much less a Gentleman, should plead for't.

God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

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

Whenever legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.

When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success.

These two, I say, viz. external material things, as the objects of SENSATION, and the operations of our own minds within, as the objects of REFLECTION, are to me the only originals from whence all our ideas take their beginnings.