He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance. - David Hume

[I]f subjects must never resist, it follows that every prince, without any effort, policy, or violence, is at once rendered absolute and uncontrollable;

I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.

What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.