“Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.”
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Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.
The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
