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

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

Interest is the barometer of the state.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

On the theory of the soul's mortality, the inferiority of women's capacity is easily accounted for: Their domestic life requires no higher faculties either of mind or body. This circumstance vanishes and becomes absolutely insignificant, on the religious theory: The one sex has an equal task to perform as the other: Their powers of reason and resolution ought also to have been equal, and both of them infinitely greater than at present.