"Our judgements concerning moral distinctions are derived from the moral sentiment, and not from reason."

"The passions are the only causes of action, and reason is and ought only to be the slave of the passions."

"If we would satisfy ourselves, therefore, concerning the nature of that evidence, which assures us of matters of fact, we must enquire how we arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect."

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

"Some exalt our species to the skies, and represent man as a kind of human demigod, who derives his origin from heaven, and retains evident marks of his lineage and descent. Others insist upon the blin…"