Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason...
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Generally speaking the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy...
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles but even...
The law always limits every power it gives.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power...
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most...
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian were not nature too strong...
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external...
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true...
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds as it amuses the...
A man acquainted with history may in some respect be said to have lived...
Every wise just and mild government by rendering the condition of its...
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men the good and the bad....
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real...
There is not to be found in all history any miracle attested by a...
A purpose an intention a design strikes everywhere even the careless the...
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his...
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
Accuracy is in every case advantageous to beauty and just reasoning to...
Beauty whether moral or natural is felt more properly than perceived.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception...
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
