"The great end of all speculation is to make our natural sentiments of approbation and blame coincide with those of the wise and judicious."

"No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences."

"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…"

"The passion of love is a very odd compound."

"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."