The Greater Part Of Mankind May Be

And Whoever Is Moved By Faith To Assent To It, Is Conscious Of A Continued Miracle In His Own Person, Which Subverts All The Principles Of His Understanding, And Gives Him A Determination To Believe What Is Most Contrary To Custom And Experience.

A Wise Man Proportions His Belief To The Evidence.

Among The Arts Of Conversation No One Pleases More Than Mutual Deference Or Civility, Which Leads Us To Resign Our Own Inclinations To Those Of Our Companions, And To Curb And Conceal That Presumption And Arrogance So Natural To The Human Mind.

All Power, Even The Most Despotic, Rests Ultimately On Opinion.

It Is Still Open For Me, As Well As You, To Regulate My Behavior, By My Experience Of Past Events.