EssayBeauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.David Hume1758★ 3.8
EssayA propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.David Hume1758★ 3.8
EssayAmong the calamities of war may be justly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages.Samuel Johnson1758★ 3.5
EssayIn all matters of opinion and science... The difference among men is...oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars: and to be less in reality than in appearance. An explanation of the terms commonly ends the controversy; and the disputants are surprised to find, that they had been quarrelling, while at bottom they agreed in their judgement.David Hume1758★ 2.0