Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.

Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.

The Imagination that is raised in man (or any other creature imbued with the faculty of imagining) by words, or other voluntary signs, is that we generally call Understanding; and is common to Man and Beasts.

To conclude, The Light of humane minds is Perspicuous Words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity; Reason is the pace; Encrease of Science, the way; and the Benefit of man-kind, the end.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.