"All doctrines, however, are not to be admitted on the same footing. Each must be tried by its own proper evidence; and as this evidence is more or less convincing, we must assent to it more or less st…"

"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger."

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

"As to the Approbation or Esteem of those Blockheads who call themselves the Public, & whom a Bookseller, a Lord, a Priest, or a Party can guide, I do most heartily despise it."

"All belief of matter of fact or real existence is derived merely from some object present to the memory or senses, and a customary conjunction betwixt that and some other object."