No human testimony can have such force as to prove a miracle, and make it a just foundation for any such system of religion

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.