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

"The passion of vanity is rather a proof of a little mind, than of a great one."

"The only method of freeing us from these abstruse questions, is to enquire seriously into the nature of human understanding, and show, from an exact analysis of its powers and capacities, that it is b…"

"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 endeavours to establish."

"The sceptic, therefore, still continues to reason and believe, even though he asserts that he cannot defend his reason by reasons."