"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."

"There is no such thing as freedom of the will."

"Some exalt our species to the skies, and represent man as a kind of human demigod, who derives his origin from heaven, and retains evident marks of his lineage and descent. Others insist upon the blin…"

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"The elegant part of mankind, who are not addicted to the severer sciences, may here find entertainment, and perhaps instruction."