"The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present."

"The source of all felicity and unhappiness, is the love of ourselves."

"For the laws of nature, as I have shewed, are but theorems concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves."

"For to believe that any one should be so fool-hardy, as to put himself into a state of war, without necessity, is to believe that he is a fool."

"And therefore, if a man consider that argument, which is drawn from the common consent of all nations, to prove there is a God; he must not think it an argument of God's existence, but of the existenc…"