Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

The disease is no longer a novelty to people, and sometimes owners take it upon themselves to diagnose their horse with West Nile and put him down before ever confirming it, ... It may be a true decline, but the numbers may not be as true as we are seeing.