Quotes by David Hume

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.