Self-denial Is A Monkish Virtue.

It Is On Opinion Only That Government Is Founded; And This Maxim Extends To The Most Despotic And Most Military Governments, As Well As To The Most Free And Most Popular.

An Infinite Number Of Real Parts Of Time, Passing In Succession, And Exhausted One After Another, Appears So Evident A Contradiction, That No Man, One Should Think, Whose Judgement Is Not Corrupted, Instead Of Being Improved, By The Sciences, Would Ever Be Able To Admit Of It.

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

Beauty, Whether Moral Or Natural, Is Felt, More Properly Than Perceived.

Men Often Act Knowingly Against Their Interest.