"The general rule is, that all objects, which are continguous in time and place, and betwixt which there is an original resemblance, are conceived as united by the imagination."

"The rules of morality are not the conclusions of our reason."

"To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential step towards being a true philosopher."

"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."

"It forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations, that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given …"