There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

We may conclude, therefore, that, in order to establish laws for the regulation of property, we must be acquainted with the nature and situation of man; must reject appearances, which may be false, though specious; and must search for those rules, which are, on the whole, most useful and beneficial.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion