Every Thing Is What It Is, And

It Is Not At All Incredible, That A Book Which Has Been So Long In The Possession Of Mankind Should Contain Many Truths As Yet Undiscovered.

There Is A Much More Exact Correspondence Between The Natural And Moral World Than We Are Apt To Take Notice Of.

People Habituate Themselves To Let Things Pass Through Their Minds, As One May Speak, Rather Than To Think Of Them. Thus By Use They Become Satisfied Merely With Seeing What Is Said, Without Going Any Further. Review And Attention, And Even Forming A Judgment, Becomes Fatigue; And To Lay Anything Before Them That Requires It, Is Putting Them Quite Out Of Their Way.

The Love Of Liberty That Is Not A Real Principle Of Dutiful Behavior To Authority Is As Hypocritical As The Religion That Is Not Productive Of A Good Life.

The Tongue May Be Employed About, And Made To Serve All The Purposes Of Vice, In Tempting And Deceiving, In Perjury And Injustice.