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

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.

The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.