Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

Plenty and indigence depend upon the opinion every one has of them; and riches, like glory of health, have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleaded to lend them.