David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life. ”

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. ”

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ”

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ”

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. ”

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. ”

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected. ”

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. ”

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ”

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. ”