Necessity may be defined in two ways, conformably to the two definitions of cause, of which it makes an essential part. It consists either in the con… - David Hume

Any pride or haughtiness, is displeasing to us, merely because it shocks our own pride, and leads us by sympathy into comparison, which causes the disagreeable passion of humility.

With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.

During such calm sunshine of the mind, these spectres of false divinity never make their appearance.