For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes greater Impression than Reason; though indeed no particular species of Nonsense is so durable. But the several Forms of Nonsense never cease succeeding one another; and Men are always under the Dominion of some one or other, though nothing was ever equal in Absurdity and Wickedness to our present Patriotism.

I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause.

To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.