Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who feeling inhimself an inclination to it, is yet so over-whelm'd with doubts and scruples, as totally to reject it. A true sceptic will be diffident of his philosophical doubts, as well as of his philosophical conviction; and will never refuse any innocent satisfaction, which offers itself, upon account of either of them.