David Hume quotes
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.