David Hume — "The greatest crime is to be poor."

"A man who has no sense of the ridiculous is a dangerous companion."

"There is no such thing as chance in the world."

"Barbarous nations display this superiority, by reducing their females to the most abject slavery; by confining them, by beating them, by selling them, by killing them."

"I am sensible, that, in order to make a man a good cavaller, 'tis not sufficient to teach him to ride; he must have a good horse."

"The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life."