The Height Of Human Wisdom

All The Good Things Of The World Are No Further Good To Us Than As They Are Of Use; And Of All We May Heap Up We Enjoy Only As Much As We Can Use, And No More.

We Are Very Fond Of Some Families Because They Can Be Traced Beyond The Conquest, Whereas Indeed The Farther Back, The Worse, As Being The Nearer Allied To A Race Of Robbers And Thieves.

It Is Men Of Desperate Fortunes On The One Hand, Or Of Aspiring, Superior Fortunes On The Other, Who Go Abroad Upon Adventures, To Rise By Enterprise, And Make Themselves Famous In Undertakings Of A Nature Out Of The Common Road.

For Sudden Joys, Like Griefs, Confound At First.

Reason, It Is True, Is Dictator In The Society Of Mankind; From Her There Ought To Lie No Appeal; But Here We Want A Pope In Our Philosophy, To Be The Infallible Judge Of What Is Or Is Not Reason.