Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.

A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.