In plain Truth, it is no Want, but rather Abundance that creates Avarice.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?"

Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

Oh, what a valiant faculty is hope, that in a mortal subject, and in a moment, makes nothing of usurping infinity, immensity, eternity, and of supplying its masters indigence, at its pleasure, with all things he can imagine or desire!