It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
Nothing can be more real, or concern us more, than our own sentiments of pleasure and uneasiness; and if these be favourable to virtue and unfavourable to vice, no more can be requisite to the regulation of our conduct and behavior.
Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.