We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.
God is the place of spirits, as spaces are the places of bodies.
The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.