I Had Rather Be An Oyster Than

Whatever Is Immediately Perceived Is An Idea: And Can Any Idea Exist Out Of The Mind?

To Be A Good Patriot, A Man Must Consider His Countrymen As God's Creatures, And Himself As Accountable For His Acting Towards Them.

[tar Water] Is Of A Nature So Mild And Benign And Proportioned To The Human Constitution, As To Warm Without Heating, To Cheer But Not Inebriate.

A Ray Of Imagination Or Of Wisdom May Enlighten The Universe, And Glow Into Remotest Centuries.

To Be Is To Be Perceived (esse Est Percipi)." Or, "if A Tree Falls In The Forest And No One Is There To Hear It, Does It Make A Sound?