Upstart Greatness Is Everywhere Less Respected Than

With The Greater Part Of Rich People, The Chief Enjoyment Of Riches Consists In The Parade Of Riches.

It Is Not Very Unreasonable That The Rich Should Contribute To The Public Expense, Not Only In Proportion To Their Revenue, But Something More Than In That Proportion.

Poor David Hume Is Dying Fast, But With More Real Cheerfulness And Good Humor And With More Real Resignation To The Necessary Course Of Things, Than Any Whining Christian Ever Dyed With Pretended Resignation To The Will Of God.

Wonder... And Not Any Expectation Of Advantage From Its Discoveries, Is The First Principle Which Prompts Mankind To The Study Of Philosophy, Of That Science Which Pretends To Lay Open The Concealed Connections That Unite The Various Appearances Of Nature.

The Retinue Of A Grandee In China Or Indostan Accordingly Is, By All Accounts, Much More Numerous And Splendid Than That Of The Richest Subjects Of Europe.