David Hume — "The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

"'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to chuse my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of a…"

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or fee…"

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

"The passion of love is a very odd compound."