The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

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

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

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.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.