Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
Explanation is where the mind rests.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
When anyone tells me that he saw a dead man restored to life, I immediately consider with myself whether it be more probable that this person should either deceive or be deceived or that the fact whic...
Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The most unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the imperfections of the mechanical philosophy, so agreeable to the natural vanity and curiosi...
Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today, and that you should aid me tomorrow. I have no kindness for you, and know you have...
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous those in philosophy only ridiculous.
Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.