No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.
It affords a violent prejudice against almost every science, that no prudent man, however sure of his principles, dares prophesy concerning any event, or foretell the remote consequences of things.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections.