From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.
Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.
The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
