"A woman may behave herself with good manners, and have even some vivacity in her turn of wit; but where her mind is so unfurnished, 'tis impossible her conversation can afford any entertainment to men…"

"Men's views of things are very much perverted by their passions."

"I am apt to suspect the negroes and in general all other species of men (for there are four or five different kinds) to be naturally inferior to the whites."

"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…"

"A propensity to laugh is at the bottom of all our serious philosophical enquiries."