“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.