The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

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

Revolt is the right of the people

[H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

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.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.