A Wise Man Proportions His Belief To

Eloquence, When In Its Highest Pitch, Leaves Little Room For Reason Or Reflection.

We Learn The Influence Of Our Will From Experience Alone. And Experience Only Teaches Us, How One Event Constantly Follows Another; Without Instructing Us In The Secret Connexion, Which Binds Them Together, And Renders Them Inseparable.

.. The Voice Of Nature And Experience Seems Plainly To Oppose The Selfish Theory.

In All The Events Of Life, We Ought Still To Preserve Our Scepticism. If We Believe That Fire Warms, Or Water Refreshes, It Is Only Because It Costs Us Too Much Pains To Think Otherwise.

Self-denial Is A Monkish Virtue.