"I am sensible that my philosophy is very little susceptible of the ornaments of eloquence and poetry."

"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…"

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which ha…"

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

"The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance."