What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'. |
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. |
Everything in the world is purchased by labor. |
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. |
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. |
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. |
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. |
Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. |
Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. |
Custom is the great guide to human life. |
Avarice, the spur of industry. |
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them. |
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. |