The more instances we examine, and the more care we employ, the more assurance shall we acquire, that the enumeration, which we form from the whole, is complete and entire.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

The observation of human blindness and weakness is the result of all philosophy, and meets us at every turn, in spite of our endeavours to elude or avoid it.