David Hume — "No ingenious manufactures amongst them, no arts, no sciences."

"All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, that it is impossible for us to think of anything, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal …"

"The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason."

"It is an infallible maxim, that no man was ever attached to the present order of things, who did not hope to profit by it."

"In order, therefore, to impose a due restraint on the female sex, we must attach a peculiar degree of shame to their infidelity, above what arises merely from its injustice, and must bestow proportion…"

"And what surprize must we feel, when we find him a stupid mechanic, who imitated others, and copied an art, which, through a long succession of ages, after multiplied trials, mistakes, corrections, de…"