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.

The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

The game women play is men.