David Hume

"Man is born naked and poor"

"The impressions of the senses are vivid and lively"

"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius"

"The sun rises and sets regularly, and the seasons follow each other in their proper order"

"Virtue is nothing but a more enlarged and more cultivated benevolence"

"Money is not real. It is an agreement within a community to exchange"

"I do therefore invade the province of the grammarian but as a philosopher"

"Solitude is an awful thing when there is no understanding between the soul and the world"

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth"

"Fear is the parent of cruelty"

"Commerce is the great civilizer"

"The great beauties of literature lie in the sentiments expressed"

"Innovation is the life force of all human endeavor"

"Revenge is a kind of wild justice"

"The mind is a blank slate when we are born"

"A man may love his house and lands dearly without being a politician"

"All our reasonings concerning matter of fact seem to be founded on the relation of Cause and Effect"

"Wonder and astonishment are the parents of philosophy"

"The errors of youth are the ruin of the future"

"Humility is the foundation of all virtue"

"The imagination is naturally more pleased by the prospect of future advantage than by the actual enjoyment of present"

"An Englishman is the healthiest, happiest, and most independent of all beings"

"Generally speaking, the errors and follies of mankind proceed from some natural inclination"

"I believe the most natural beauty in the world is honesty and loyalty"

"If we take in our hand any volume on metaphysics, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames"

"Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion"

"There is only one honest impulse at the heart of politics, that of improving people's lives"

"All sciences depend upon philosophy and all are subordinate to it"

"The sweetest and most agreeable of all sounds is that of one's own praise"

"Deep experience and learning are the parents of wisdom"