Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

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

Human Nature is the only science of man and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

The law always limits every power it gives.