"All human life must perish, were his principles to prevail. All discourse, all action would immediately cease, and men remain in a total lethargy, till the necessities of nature, unsatisfied, put an e…"

"The life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster."

"I am sensible, that, in order to make a man a good cavaller, 'tis not sufficient to teach him to ride; he must have a good horse."

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

"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…"