"The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we're talking about."

"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

"Our most holy religion is founded on faith, not on reason; and 'tis a sure method of exposing it to put it to such a trial as it is by no means fitted to endure."

"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy of the moral or metaphysical kind serves only to discover more ope…"