If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
David HumeReading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.
David HumeWe need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.
David HumeA Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.
David Hume