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

"In JAMAICA, indeed, they talk of one negroe as a man of parts and learning; but 'tis likely he is admired for very slender accomplishments, like a parrot, who speaks a few words plainly."

"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…"

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, means a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will."

"The greater the object, the less it can be conceived by the imagination."