When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.
David HumeThe simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
David Hume.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.
David Hume'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true virtue and honor consist. It rarely, very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not, at least, an honest man, whatever frailties may attend him.
David Hume