"The sceptic, therefore, still continues to reason and believe, even though he asserts that he cannot defend his reason by reasons."

"A certain proof that men ever did, and ever will derive their religion from other sources than this species of reasoning."

"The passion of vanity is rather a proof of a little mind, than of a great one."

"For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never c…"

"The general rule is, that all objects, which are continguous in time and place, and betwixt which there is an original resemblance, are conceived as united by the imagination."