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.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

I am sure, zeal or love for truth can never permit falsehood to be used in the defense of it.

Curiosity in children is but an appetite for knowledge.

No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made.

Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself.