From causes which appear similar, we expect similar effects. This is the sum total of all our experimental conclusions.

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

Anything that is conceivable is possible.