Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.