Love is an affection which carries the attention of the mind beyond itself, and is the sense of a relation to some fellow creature as to its object. - Adam Ferguson

Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.

Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.