David Hume — "The fact is, that the greatest part of our reasonings, concerning matters of fac…"

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, is an entire absence of all external impediments of motion."

"Much human thought... is based on “a reasoning that is not in itself different from, nor founded on different principles, from that which appears” in animals."

"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life."

"The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer."

"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…"