The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

To ask at what time a man has first any ideas is to ask when he begins to perceive; having ideas and perception being the same thing.

If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

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

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.