To Conceive That Compulsion And Punishment Are

There Can Be No Passion, And By Consequence No Love, Where There Is Not Imagination.

The Great Model Of The Affection Of Love In Human Beings Is The Sentiment Which Subsists Between Parents And Children.

Hereditary Wealth Is In Reality A Premium Paid To Idleness.

I Shall Attempt To Prove Two Things: First, That The Actions And Dispositions Of Mankind Are The Offspring Of Circumstances And Events, And Not Of Any Original Determination That They Bring Into The World; And, Secondly, That The Great Stream Of Our Voluntary Actions Essentially Depends, Not Upon The Direct And Immediate Impulses Of Sense, But Upon The Decisions Of The Understanding.

In A Well-written Book We Are Presented With The Maturest Reflections, Or The Happiest Flights Of A Mind Of Uncommon Excellence. It Is Impossible That We Can Be Much Accustomed To Such Companions Without Attaining Some Resemblance To Them.