One that has well digested his knowledge both of books and men, has little enjoyment but in the company of a few select companions. He feels too sens… - David Hume

How can you worship leeks and onions? we shall suppose a SORBONNIST to say to a priest of SAIS. If we worship them, replies the latter; at least, we do not, at the same time, eat them. But what strange object of adoration are cats and monkeys? says the learned doctor. They are at least as good as the relics or rotten bones of martyrs, answers his no less learned antagonist. Are you not mad, insists the Catholic, to cut one another's throat about the preference of a cabbage or a cucumber? Yes, says the pagan; I allow it, if you will confess, that those are still madder, who fight about the preference among volumes of sophistry, ten thousand of which are not equal in value to one cabbage or cucumber.

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

The conclusion [of the essay 'Of the Protestant Succession'] shows me a Whig, but a very sceptical one.