Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

The end of knowledge is power ... the scope of all speculation is the performing of some action or thing to be done.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

I mean by the universe, the aggregate of all things that have being in themselves; and so do all men else. And because God has a being, it follows that he is either the whole universe, or part of it. Nor does his Lordship go about to disprove it, but only seems to wonder at it.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

It's not the pace of life I mind. It's the sudden stop at the end.