Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

The greatest part cannot know, and therefore they must believe.