Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

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