David Hume — "I am sensible, that, in order to make a man a good cavaller, 'tis not sufficient…"

"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest."

"A certain proof that men ever did, and ever will derive their religion from other sources than this species of reasoning."

"The general maxims of morality are insufficient to determine us to action."

"Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few."

"As to the Approbation or Esteem of those Blockheads who call themselves the Public, & whom a Bookseller, a Lord, a Priest, or a Party can guide, I do most heartily despise it."