Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.
It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
관습, 인즉, 인간 생활에 훌륭한 가이드.
그리고 무엇이 가장 위대한 숫자인가? 넘버 원.