Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.
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.
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.
Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.