What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.

There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?

Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.