It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.
Common sense is the best distributed commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
although we very clearly see the sun, we ought not therefore to determine that it is only of the size which our sense of sight presents; and we may very distinctly imagine the head of a lion joined to the body of a goat, without being therefore shut ...
I revered our theology, and aspired as much as any one to reach heaven: but being given assuredly to understand that the way is not less open to the most ignorant than to the most learned, and that the revealed truths which lead to heaven are above o...
