Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are, therefore, the true sources of Superstition. - David Hume

Now as we call every thing , which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

The victory is not gained by the men at arms, who manage the pike and the sword; but by the trumpeters, drummers, and musicians of the army.