David Hume
10 quotations
The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.
Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
Avarice, the spur of industry.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
The law always limits every power it gives.
Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
And what is the greatest number? Number one.
Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.