The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.

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

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

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 Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.