"For there is no such Finis Ultimus, (utmost aim,) nor Summum Bonum, (greatest good,) as is spoken of in the books of the old moral philosophers. Nor can a man any more live, whose desires are at an en…"

"The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

"For seeing that the whole world is but motion, and there is nothing in it but motion, it is impossible that any part of it should remain always in the same state."

"The value of a man, is as of all other things, his price; that is, so much as would be given for the use of his power."

"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."