The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.