The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

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

An infinite number of real parts of time, passing in succession, and exhausted one after another, appears so evident a contradiction, that no man, one should think, whose judgement is not corrupted, instead of being improved, by the sciences, would ever be able to admit of it.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness