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

The end of all moral speculations is to teach us our duty; and, by proper representations of the deformity of vice and beauty of virtue, beget correspondent habits, and engage us to avoid the one, and embrace the other.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

That the sun shines tomorrow is a judgement that is as true as the contrary judgement.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life.