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."

"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

"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."

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