The heart of man is made to reconcile the most glaring contradictions.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.
Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.