If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and nothing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

Absolute monarchy,... is the easiest death, the true Euthanasia of the BRITISH constitution.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.