Nothing is more admirable, than the readiness, with which the imagination suggests its ideas, and presents them at the very instant, in which they be… - David Hume

Carelessness and in-attention alone can afford us any remedy. For this reason I rely entirely upon them.

Explanation is where the mind rests.

We must therefore glean up our experiments in this science from a cautious observation of human life, and take them as they appear in the common course of the world, by men’s behaviour in company, in affairs, and in their pleasures. Where experiments of this kind are judiciously collected and compared, we may hope to establish on them a science, which will not be inferior in certainty, and will be much superior in utility to any other of human comprehension.