Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade, whichat the same time that it shows enough to prepossess us in favour of the object, leaves still some work for the imagination.

How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be the foundation of morals, if particular characters had no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, and if these sentiments had no constant operation on actions?

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

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.