"We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution."

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

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

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

"In order, therefore, to impose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a peculiar degree of shame to their infidelity, above what arises merely from its injustice, and must bestow proportion…"