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.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

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

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

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.