Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. Read Summary
The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. Read Summary
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. Read Summary
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. Read Summary
Everything in the world is purchased by labor. Read Summary
The law always limits every power it gives. Read Summary
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. Read Summary
Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. Read Summary
And what is the greatest number? Number one. Read Summary
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. Read Summary
The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Read Summary
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. Read Summary
I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. Read Summary
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it. Read Summary
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. Read Summary
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue. Read Summary
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. Read Summary
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. Read Summary
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. Read Summary
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. Read Summary