Self-denial Is A Monkish Virtue.

Absolute Monarchy,... Is The Easiest Death, The True Euthanasia Of The British Constitution.

That The Corruption Of The Best Thing Produces The Worst, Is Grown Into A Maxim, And Is Commonly Proved, Among Other Instances, By The Pernicious Effects Of Superstition And Enthusiasm, The Corruptions Of True Religion.

I Know With Certainty, That [an Honest Man] Is Not To Put His Hand Into The Fire, And Hold It There, Till It Be Consumed: And Thisevent, I Think I Can Foretell With The Same Assurance, As That, If He Throw Himself Out At The Window, And Meet With No Obstruction, He Will Not Remain A Moment Suspended In The Air.

I Never Asserted Such An Absurd Thing As That Things Arise Without A Cause.

Reason Is, And Ought Only To Be The Slave Of The Passions.