Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.

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.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

Disbelief in futurity loosens in a great measure the ties of morality, and may be for that reason pernicious to the peace of civil society.