The only differences, 'concerning temporal Matters', that [John Home] had with Hume, were his indifference to port and his insistence on spelling his name with an 'o'.
- Editor's footnote in Hume's History of Natural Religion. John Home was a cousin and close friend of Hume.
"But this is neither dogmatism nor scepticism, but stupidity; a state of mind very different from your sifting, inquisitive disposition, my ingenious friend."
- Cleanthes to Philo, in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
