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.
David Hume Quotes
To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, is real poverty.
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.