"A propensity to laugh is at the bottom of all our serious philosophical enquiries."

"Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or fee…"

"The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him."

"Carelessness and inattention alone can afford us any remedy."

"The savage tribes of America, Africa, and Asia are all idolaters. Not a single exception to this rule. Insomuch, that, were a traveller to transport himself into any unknown region; if he found inhabi…"