It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

That the corruption of the best thing produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, by the pernicious effects of superstition and enthusiasm, the corruptions of true religion.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

Everything in the world is purchased by labor.

A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.