Hume, David

"Solitude and thoughtfulness are appropriate for those who would cultivate wisdom."

"The mind, being the most noble of all things, deserves our most careful cultivation."

"Time, the great physician of human sorrows."

"For no man can have a true regard for another unless he has a true respect for himself."

"There is no satisfaction in the achievement of the evil-minded."

"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast."

"Every person in his own mind is a moralist and a politician."

"It is a just observation that men are not to be measured by the height or length of their bodies, but by the strength of their virtues."

"The universal reign of the law of gravitation throughout the cosmos is no more miraculous than the reign of justice in human society."

"Dreams and fancies are not more of a hindrance to the pursuits of serious philosophy than the wanderings of the imagination."

"Nothing is more entertaining than the history of manners and morals."

"Every sensible man is a philosopher in his own way."

"The greatest inventions are those which improve the condition of human life."

"In every system of philosophy, the first principles are hard to understand."

"There is no station in life in which a man cannot be happy."

"The death of a friend is a loss that cannot be measured in material terms."

"To delight in the various forms of intellectual amusement is a sign of cultivation."

"Nature abhors a vacuum, but human nature abhors restraint."

"Justice, being derived from human conventions and mutual advantage, has no universal application."

"The cultivation of the arts and sciences is the glory of a nation."

"A nation's strength lies not in the number of its soldiers, but in the virtue of its citizens."

"The sweetest fruit is that which we have earned through our own labor."

"No one can be perfectly free until all are free."

"Adventure and the pursuit of knowledge are the greatest pleasures of life."

"The man who has never experienced failure has never truly lived."

"Health is the greatest of all treasures."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

"Literature is the mirror of the human soul."

"The greatest pleasure is the pleasure of being respected."

"No one is truly alone who has access to the written wisdom of the ages."