“To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian.”

“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity”

“All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignoranceand obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and notto admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which issupported by no appearance of probability.”

“Be a philosopher, but amid all your philosophy be still a man.”

“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”

“To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.”

“The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian”