I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.
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.
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause
It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.
Of all sciences there is none, where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
