No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

David Hume

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

David Hume

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

David Hume

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

David Hume

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

David Hume