All Power, Even The Most Despotic, Rests

No Truth Appears To Me More Evident Than That Beasts Are Endowed With Thought And Reason As Well As Men.

The Sweetest Path Of Life Leads Through The Avenues Of Learning, And Whoever Can Open Up The Way For Another, Ought, So Far, To Be Esteemed A Benefactor To Mankind.

Philosophy Would Render Us Entirely Pyrrhonian, Were Not Nature Too Strong For It.

The Unhappy Of All Men Is He Who Believes Himself To Be So.

Human Happiness Seems To Consist In Three Ingredients; Action, Pleasure And Indolence. And Though These Ingredients Ought To Be Mixed In Different Proportions, According To The Disposition Of The Person, Yet No One Ingredient Can Be Entirely Wanting Without Destroying In Some Measure The Relish Of The Whole Composition.