The ages of greatest public spirit are not always eminent for private virtue.

We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.

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

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.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

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 a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.